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shipping things like NSTs RE: Anyone have a transformer I can buy
Original poster: Jim Lux <jimlux@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
At 07:16 AM 4/8/2006, Tesla list wrote:
Original poster: "Dave Halliday" <dh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Where are you located?
I am still testing a bunch of Neon Sign transformers that I got at
auction and have a number of used 12KV 30mA units.
Shipping will be a bit expensive as I am building a wood box for each
unit to protect the ceramic bushings.
Wood boxes are nice, but probably overkill..
The commercial units get shipped in cardboard boxes with sytrofoam
type inserts.
They put a short cardboard tube over the insulator to keep it from
getting dinged.
Mostly, it's a matter of using enough rigid packing material around
the transformer and a big enough box, so that if the box does get
dropped/bashed/etc., the transformer survives. The packing material
needs to be rigid enough to hold position too. No just dumping the
NST into a big box of pellets.
The commercial shipping uses about 2-3" total space, but they get to
use nice customized foam inserts.
Likewise, they ship lab test equipment (scopes, spectrum analyzers,
etc.) using that expanding foam in a plastic bag, with 3-6" of space
between equipment and box wall.
Wrapping it in many, many layers of bubble wrap "might" work, but
you'd really have to jam it in.
There's also the old standby of double boxing. use something like
bubble wrap around the NST and jam it tightly into the inside box,
then put 3" of almost anything around that to put it into the outside
box. Crumpled newspaper, foam pellets, etc., would all work.
I also ran into a bunch of Microwave Oven transformers from another deal
-- these will be around $30 each shipping in the USA included.
> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Friday, April 07, 2006 10:20 PM
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> Subject: Anyone have a transformer I can buy
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> Original poster: "Kyle Sandbornhesium"
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> Hey I need a 12kv transformer would I be able to purchase one through
> you guys or somwhere off the internet for $75 or less.
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> Cheers,
> Kyle
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